Improvement in seed-droppers



L. FRANCISCO. SEED-D OPPER; No. 186,670. Patented Jan.30,1877.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

LUCIEN FRANCIS CO, OF MGHENRY, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-DROPPERS.

S pecifieation forming part of Letters Patent Nol86,670, dated January 30,1877; application filed April 24, 1876.

kin-seed dropper attached.

C C represent corn bOXes or hoppers of cornplanter; G G, Shoes of cOrn-planter; B B, small removable boXes Or hoppers representiug the pumpkin-seed boXes; E E, tubes beneath, connecting the seed-bOXes with the Corn -shoes G G, conducting the pumpkinseeds to Corn-Shoes G G, down which they pass in Company with the corn, and are to' gether deposited and covered by the action of corn-planter. A A are iron arms, boited to slide or dropping bar F of cOrn-planter. They are the feed or dropping bars of the pumpkin-seed dropper; a hole in the interior end of each dropping-bar A A in seed-boxes B B being of size sufficient to receive One Or two pumpkin-seeds at a time, and, by action of lever D on bar F, draws dropping-bars A A with seeds over the mouth of tubes E E, allowing the seeds to drop into Shoes G Gr, and thence.

into ground; ]L h, slotted slide attached to seedboxes B B, used to shut Off the seeds in one Or bot-h boxes from the feed-bar, so as to Omit droppine: in any row or rows at Option of operator.

I claim as my invention In eombination with the corn-boxes G, the boxes B attached thereto, slide F, bent arms A, that drop the pumpkin-seeds from the boXes B, tubes E, and Shoes G, whereby both the corn and pumpkin-seed are dropped together in the same hill, substantially as shown.

LUCIEN FRANCISOO. Witnesses F. K. GRANGER, G. ELDREGE. 

